William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.

Suddenly

SUDDENLY flickered a flame,

Suddenly fluttered a wing:

What, can a dead bird sing?

Somebody spoke your name.

Suddenly fluttered a wing,

Sounded a voice, the same,

Somebody spoke your name:

Oh, the remembering!

Sounded a voice, the same,

Song of the heart’s green spring,

Oh, the remembering:

Which of us was to blame?

Song of the heart’s green spring,

Wings that still flutter, lame,

Which of us was to blame?—

God, the slow withering!

The Century Magazine